10 Reasons why you should have a hobby!
Hobbies are a great stress reliever
Have you ever came home after a long and stressful day and just poured a glass of wine or opened a beer and lay down on the couch? You know that wonderful feeling when you start relaxing, THAT is the feeling you get when you participate in doing a hobby.
Researchers have shown over and over again that having a hobby reduces your stress and health-wise, having a hobby is much more healthy than using alcohol to reduce your stress and it is definitely healthier for your pocket.
Hobbies encourage you to take a break
Whether you are piled up at work or just too busy at home with husband or wife and the kids, take a break once in a while and spend time doing a hobby. A hobby should be something you love and enjoy doing. Lets just think about it for a second – if you work everyday, the whole day and come home and just keep working, you will definitely crash someday. No I don’t mean literally, but physically and mentally. A Hobby is a good distraction from the real world.
Hobbies offer new challenges and experiences
Daily you have challenges at work and as we all know work-related challenges cause stress. Why not just participate in new stress-free challenges. When doing a hobby and you stumble on new challenges, you don’t have to feel bad about yourself for doing it wrong the first time because you are learning something new and practice makes perfect!
Hobbies allow you to explore yourself and your talents
There is no better way of finding yourself than doing a hobby. You learn things about yourself, like what you like and dislike and what brings you joy. When starting out a hobby, think about all the different things you absolutely love to do and make time to try making a hobby out of those things.
Hobbies can help to improve your career
Hobbies help you relax and when you are relaxed you are focused on a higher level, which means that you will achieve more inside and outside of the workplace. You will almost automatically have the drive you need to get through the day without feeling exhausted. Besides the things I mentioned above, your boss will also think that you have passion and drive and know how to use your time as time is precious.
Hobbies can provide additional income
If you find a hobby that you absolutely love and are really good at, you can go so far as to start making sales out of your hobby. Lets take for example candle making, if you do candle making as a hobby you can sell the candles you are making or you can host workshops and share your passion with others.
Hobbies help transition you to retirement
Have you ever wondered what you will do with all your free time once you retire? Well now you can stop wondering. Doing a hobby allows you to retire without feeling that you lose your purpose in life. For people who like to keep busy it just makes sense to start a hobby before retiring.
Hobbies prevent you from wasting time and creating bad habits
Hobbies will keep you busy which means you are not wasting your precious time. It also keeps you from falling in to bad habits like drinking or gambling. Like I said earlier it is healthier for you and cheaper than bad habits.
Hobbies help you grow spiritually
Your body is nourished by food and exercise. Just like that your soul and mind also needs to be nourished. Hobbies leave you feeling inspired, creative and recharged which will help in other areas of your life.
Hobbies improve your self-confidence and self-esteem
When you achieve things through your hobbies you instantly feel better about yourself and feeling better about yourself just makes life more interesting. If you can’t value yourself you can’t value others. So basically what I’m trying to say is working on your self-confidence can make life more pleasurable.
